You know, I haven't minded the whole Civil War thing all that much apart from the delays it's caused. Some interesting stuff in there. But I really didn't care for this issue. Why's that?
* When Cap gets out of jail, he's going to have a whole bunch of folks pretty pissed off at him. He decides what's right and wrong for everyone? That's not going to sit well with some of the anti-reg side. It'll be interesting to see what happens that next time he's called on to lead a group--are they going to trust him, knowing that he's capable of abandoning the team in mid-battle like that?
* And the reason for his change of heart also seemed questionable--Cap never seemed one for situational ethics before, yet here he is deciding that the anti-reg side is wrong because a few individuals seem to be on Iron Man's side? (And surely he's seen the polls indicating that the pro-reg side is favored by--what was it in the Winter Soldier Christmas book?--60 per cent or something like that? That didn't faze him but this does?) What's right depends on the popular point of view? Cap has a stronger personal sense of right and wrong than that.
* Oh, and Iron Man? Those last three pages? Creepy. Smug. His treatment of Maria Hill just underlines it--sure, he'd want to twist the knife a little after the way she dealt with the New Avengers, but the Tony I remember wouldn't have done it, he'd have been professional about it. Also, that whole "ends justify the means" thing he's been riding all through the Civil War is bound to bite him in the ass, and hopefully soon.
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Yeah, you can virtually SEE the desperation to wind the series down in Cap's actions :)
As for Tony's treatment of Hill, I'll go one better. Hill SAVED HIS LIFE, and confided in him not only that she felt she was in over her head, but that she felt Tony would make a better head of S.H.I.E.L.D. -- which makes Tony's behavior towards her even MORE dicklike ...
I will say this, if you value Tony as a character, DON'T read Frontline #11.
Take it and run.
Hill SAVED HIS LIFE, and confided in him not only that she felt she was in over her head, but that she felt Tony would make a better head of S.H.I.E.L.D.
You're right--I'd forgotten about that. Oh, Tony, for shame...
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